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Louis:Ava Hessington is not my client. Hessington Oil is. And they generate $14 million a year in billables.Harvey: Have you not been listening? Ava Hessington is Hessington Oil. [...]Jessica: If she steps down now, we can still win the vote and keep them as a client. [...] This is my call.Harvey: I'm afraid it isn't.Jessica: Excuse me?Harvey: You and I both know who assigned me to this case, and it wasn't you. It was the man you chose to merge with. The same man who has a 51% share of our law firm. So, unless you're going to undo that, you're going to live with this.

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Harvey vetoes the idea of Ava Hessington losing control of Hessington Oil. Jessica and Louis decide that the best way to retain Hessington Oil as their client and prevent a takeover by Gianopolous Ltd. is by voting Ava out. Jessica goes behind Edward Darby's back and tells Louis to convince the board to drop Ava in exchange for Hessington Oil retaining Pearson Darby as their legal counsel, and Ava is ousted.

Darby lashes out at Jessica for her insubordination, with Jessica retorting that despite her 49% share in the firm, she would run things in New York while Darby runs things in London. However, as Darby owns 51%, he tells her that costing Ava her company was not in the firm's interest; Jessica replies that his personal feelings for Ava clouds his judgment and that her actions retained Hessington Oil as a client, therefore adding $14 million on her side of the ledger.

Mike and Katrina work together on the Hessington murder and hostile takeover case, calling a truce and bonding over their shared interest in shows like The Wire and The Sopranos.

Cultural References

Harvey refers to Mike as Forrest Gump, and Mike responds that if he is Forrest, Harvey would be Bubba. Forrest and Bubba, as well as Harvey's quote about the shrimp business, are from the 1994 film Forrest Gump.

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Goddamn Counter: 3

When Jessica tells Louis she does not wish for him to go behind Harvey's back, he mentions that she had no problem asking him to do the very same thing when it came to McKernon Motors. ("Inside Track")